By Dr. Sylvain Ehrenfeld and Dr. Reba Goodman In February 2018, a gunman burst into the home of an investigative reporter in Slovakia and fatally shot him. In June, a disgruntled reader entered the newsroom of the Capital Gazette in Maryland and gunned down four journalists. In October, Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post reporter and Saudi exile, was murdered and dismembered by Saudi […]
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Drug company ethics
By Drs. Sylvain Ehrenfeld and Reba Goodman Public health measures such as clean water, sanitation and the beginning of drug development have increased the average lifespan by nearly 40 percent, from 50 years at the start of the 20th century to 77 years in the 21st century. Pharmaceutical companies have pioneered key drugs to combat illnesses […]
At the UN, Where are We Going?
By Drs. Sylvain Ehrenfeld and Reba Goodman The issue of the pros and cons of the United Nations continues to baffle us. This is especially so during the transition to new Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the amazing dramatic ups and downs of Donald Trump as the new president of the United States. This is a […]
Lee Porter on Fair Housing
Lee Porter (right) is pictured with Bergen member, Jean Strickholm (left). More than 50 years ago, Jean, an escort volunteer for fair housing, showed Lee the house that the Porters bought. Lee still lives there. By Janet Glass Lee Porter, Executive Director of the Fair Housing Council of Northern New Jersey, spoke at the Ethical […]
Racism Endures
By Dr. Joseph Chuman, Leader of The Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County The refusal to indict police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the killing (one wants to say murder) of Eric Garner is shocking, egregious, even incomprehensible. Even more so than the grand jury verdict in the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson Missouri, the […]
Human Rights and the Heavy Lifting of Social Justice, Sun., Dec. 7
When Jimmy Carter proclaimed in his inauguration speech that human rights would be the centerpiece of American foreign policy, few of his fellow citizens had any idea of what he was talking about. Yet open your newspaper on any day and you will find that articles referencing human rights are inescapable. Human rights are everywhere. […]
